All quiet on the Osprey front. Mistle started gently food soliciting, then quiet, then stood up to reveal.........
,, what appeared to be a half eaten rainbow trout! No doubt Scylla will be able to get a much sharper image than me. All this happened about 5:45. It was as stiff as a board. When was that delivered?
Afrer faffing around getting images 1 of them has come back to the nest and is incubating - can't tell which.
Some people think Ospreys are a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.
Intruder 15.07. Mistle defending. Someone flew onto dead tree to left. They flew towards and over nest, she defended again.
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Unknown said:I was wondering after the first one hatched whether it was in fact egg 2, as it was a couple of days after first due date,
According to the Stripey One, the first due date was the 10th, and we had not used the correct calculation method
Yes, CRINGER, I meant to comment that maybe Axel was incubating rather than brooding.
First FISH!
Itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny... Both osplets got something.
06:06 - another mini feed.
Axel was in 'n out several times early on, eg:
Another tiddler:
During feed Axel stood by preening then flew - both chicks got bites:
08:19 Another feed.
08:57 Axel arrived with indeterminate tiny luggage and pottered a bit.
Mistle with stick:
She put this bark on the outer fence, well out of our way:
Flew off, back with a forked stick:
Then she flew over the campost and away, then right to left past the old nest area, and brought a short stick which you can imagine ;)
Then she did nestorising, both standing and sitting.
Meal time here.
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Hoppy Hank said:It was the latest blog from Fergus that mentions salmon, he expressed his surprise too
I see no photographic evidence of salmon. There were 2 salmon recorded by the volunteers in 1958, 1 in 1961, 1 in 1995 and 2 in 1996. I have always put this down to mid-identification and will treat other reports with the same sceptism. An Osprey weighs c. 1.5 kg - how could it lift a salmon - minimum weight found in The Spey 3.8 kg???? When Fergus provfides scientific evidence disproving Empirical analyses of the length, weight, and condition of adult Atlantic salmon on return to the Scottish coast between 1963 and 2006, Bacon et al. (2009) Journal of Marine. Science, Volume 66, Issue 5, June 2009, Pages 844–859 then I will listen.
scylla said:Then she did nestorising, both standing and sitting
Continuing...
Small-medium fish:
14:19 Mistle flew off over the campost again, leaving Axel, who'd been hanging about on the nest for ages, to guard the chicks. She brought another stick and Axel flew off.
There were more activities but am reporting none up to the afternoon FISH, from which both chicks were fed...
Axel just took the fish away as I'm abot to hit Post.
Fish 17.19 Good sized headless. Both bobs are up for another feed.(Edit to add: I am SO stupid, just noticed my YT quality can be set to HD. Doh.)
Mistle reaches to feed the bob second in line. Egg still there.
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18.07 Axel back with the tail. She's wolfing it down like she hasn't seen fish in days! Bobs are up and she has noticed.